HeavenlyPossumAug 10, 2023

I was thinking to myself, “when will the effects of climate change get so bad that they provoke revolution” but then it occurred to me: they already did. Just in the wrong direction.

Syrians fled a civil war driven by the worst drought in a thousand years and Europe responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Central Americans fled rising temperatures that are killing agricultural workers and the U.S. responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Russia just happens to be in a war for control of some of the world’s best farmland.

Sudan is in the middle of a civil war and Niger just had its umpteenth coup.

Reactionaries are *already* at war with us over climate change. It’s only going to get worse as the world gets hotter.

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@HeavenlyPossum

The Russia's war has absolutely nothing to do with farmland.

Look at the territory of Russia - it's extremely huge and low populated.

Even though there's plenty of land to farm, it's not farmed, because it doesn't make sense economically.

Aug 11, 2023 at 9:03amWeb
Show threadHeavenlyPossumAug 11, 2023

@vegancoder

It’s just a coincidence I guess that the Russian state is in the process of expending its military might in an attempt to capture a country that represents a tenth or more of global grain production.

Show threadvegancoderAug 11, 2023

@HeavenlyPossum

It is.

There are many reasons for the war, but the farmland has nothing to do with it.

I grew up in a Siberian city with thousands of square kilometers of good farmland, which was not used for farming.

Instead, it was and is used to mine coal, because coal makes more money.

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@vegancoder

Ok!